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Compare 1587 edition: 1 This Gurmound (as ſome thinke) buylded at the ſame tyme the towne of Gurmondcheſter, and after beeing aſſyſted by the Saxons, hee made a voyage into Irelande, where hee ſpedde not greatly to his deſire, and therefore the I|riſhe account not this for any of theyr conqueſts, as ſome of their antiquaries infourmed oure Authour.Champion.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Gurmounde therefore fynding but ſorie ſuc|ceſſe, buylt a fewe ſleight Caſtelles and Fortes in the frontiers, and ſo lefte the lande, and ſayled from thence into Fraunce, where at length hee was ſlaine. Our Chronicles in deede name him King of Irelande,Turgeſius. but the Iriſhe affyrme that before Turgeſius there was none of the Eaſterne people that obteyned dominion in theyr Coun|trey.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Geraldus Ca [...]is, to make the mat|ter whole, (a Gods name) thinketh Turgeſius to haue conquered the lande as Lieutenaunt or Deputie vnder Gurmundus. But thys being graunted, there ryſeth a more manifeſt contra|diction than the former,

Laogerius.

430

for hee hymſelfe num|breth betwixte Laogirius King of Irelande, that lyued in the yeare .430. and Edlumding, whom Turgeſius vanquiſhed, xxxiij. Monarkes, whoſe raignes comprehended foure hundred yeares, ſo that Turgeſius lyued in the yeare after the in|carnation .830.

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